Sunday, February 26, 2017

Nouveau Fedora Dell 6520

I have a Dell E6520 personal laptop. It's old and I've had problems with the Nouveau and Nvidia GPU. With the update to Fedora 25 and Wayland, I started having more random lockups. I had disabled hardware video acceleration in Chrome, but that wasn't fixing the issue. I finally decided to lookup disabling Wayland and video acceleration.
To disable Wayland, edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf:

[daemon]
# Uncoment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
WaylandEnable=false

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